Project

Photo credit: Energy4Impact; Context: Senegal.

Gender inclusive financing

Project

Research and guidance to help financiers better serve women-led enterprises in the renewable energy value chain.

Project status

Completed

Region

Sub-Saharan Africa

Project vision

Empowering financiers and investors with the tools and resources to enable gender-inclusive financing and better serve women’s micro and small enterprises in the renewable energy value chain. This will help foster the resilience of women entrepreneurs operating in last-mile communities in sub-Saharan Africa, and further drive an inclusive energy transition.

Activities

Conducting in-depth research, compiling case studies, hosting interactive webinars and developing a digital toolkit for financiers to address the lack of systematic guidance for gender responsive financing.

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Impacts

Case study: Animata Dumbuyua

 

Case study: Judith Marera

 

Project Duration

2022

Who we worked with

Distill Inclusion

Funding

GET.invest, a European program supported by the European Union, Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands, and Austria.

 


Learn more about our approach to gender inclusive financing in this short video: